Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.